. The parlor gardener: a treatise on the house culture of ornamental plants. Translated from the French, and adapted to American use. f facts of this nature. If it has never hap-pened to you to stick any, or to see any stuck,I will inform you that a slip is a part of a plantdetached from the mother plant and put in theearth, in the hope that it -svill be able to takeroot there. What is necessary to make a slip take root ?It is necessary for it to live long enough on itsown vital energy for young roots to form, andto draw nourishment from the soil. When thetissue of the plant is soft, and conta
. The parlor gardener: a treatise on the house culture of ornamental plants. Translated from the French, and adapted to American use. f facts of this nature. If it has never hap-pened to you to stick any, or to see any stuck,I will inform you that a slip is a part of a plantdetached from the mother plant and put in theearth, in the hope that it -svill be able to takeroot there. What is necessary to make a slip take root ?It is necessary for it to live long enough on itsown vital energy for young roots to form, andto draw nourishment from the soil. When thetissue of the plant is soft, and contains a gooddeal of water, and when the branch that is de-tached to serve as a slip remains exposed to theair, the slip will not take root; it dries too rap-idly ; the operation fails. On the contrary, rootsalways form when, by the exclusion of the ex-ternal air, evaporation is abated ; whilst, at thesame time, the lower part of the slip is in amedium kept constantly moist, which solicits itstaking root. Slips in the Cold Portable , from what I have said, ladies, youhave a glimpse of the utility that your cold I. Fig. 4. — Cold Portable Greenhouse. THE PARLOR GARDENER 67 portable greenhouse will possess for propagatingevery kind of plant by slips. We may beginby your pretty dwarf succulent plants, detachedfragments of which will, under the shelter whichit affords, take root with marvellous , for example, a charming opuntia, and sep-arate one of its little shoots, by cutting it at thebase with a very sharp penknife. If you put thisshoot in the earth as a slip at the moment thatyou cut it, the surface of the wound in contactwith the earth will rot, and not a root will comeforth. To be successful, you must lay the slipon one of the shelves of your itagh-e, and leaveit for two or thi-ee days, that the wound maybegin to scar over before it is planted; whenthis takes place, plant it as if it had roots — andindeed it will not be long before it has them
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